Tag: living
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Protected: Of Daughters, Mothering, and The Willingness to Turn Inward…
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Of Motorcyclists, Native American Sayings, and Words that Travel Across Time…
If you want to practice patience, try shooting butterflies. They are nothing, if not elusive. Beautiful and elusive. “If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies.” On the way to school one morning this past week our youngest child noticed as a motorcycle moving past our truck and other cars then still and waiting…
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Of Bishops, Kindreds Spirits and the Dawning of Awareness…
The Bishop in chess moves diagonally along the squares of the chessboard until it encounters another playing piece. The various directions in which the Bishop can move create a cross upon the chess board. Less powerful than the Queen or Rook, one Bishop equals the strength of a Knight or 3 Pawns. Like the Rook,…
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Of Intermediate Regions, Hunger and Thirst…
There stands an intermediate region in the life and structure of a novel, that place between crossing the border of the opening and beginning and entering into a series of actions that lead to the penultimate center of the journey. It lies between the edge of that vast new world of survival that constitutes the…
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Of Life, Physicality and Stories…
Much of the ability to write compelling fiction comes from the willingness to sink one’s teeth into the substance of life, or that, which flows out of life. Conversations, kind smiles, tilts of the head can reveal joy, simmering sadness, or the ache of a heart playing upon a crafted smile. These are the human…
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Change, Suffering and Digging Deeper
Buddhism teaches that all things change, and that suffering is inherent to life. As humans we add to this suffering, or rather amplify it, by trying to hold onto the narrative line that we have fed ourselves. We resist the reality of change the various truths evidenced by its existence.
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Meaning and the Artist’s Time
Creators have trouble maintaining meaning. … A creative person is vulnerable to meaning crises, and hence depression, by virtue of our relationship to meaning. Eric Maisel, PhD, in the introduction of his book, the VAN GOGH BLUES, The Creative Person’s Path Through Depression